Example sentences of "[conj] [n mass] [vb mod] be [vb pp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Instead , additional user procedures may be introduced , existing user procedures may be amended , or data may be altered . |
| 2 | Fried and fatty meats are best avoided , but fat can be cut off before cooking , and meat or fish can be grilled or cooked in the oven . |
| 3 | Note that Business Studies , Computer Science , Physics or Statistics can be studied for one or two years in the curriculum for BSc Mathematics , so that a joint honours course is not the only way to acquire some knowledge of these subjects . |
| 4 | I would like certainly to see schemes starting where people can be put into worthwhile jobs , where people can start jobs knowing at the end of it that they are not going to be thrown onto the dole queue again . |
| 5 | The scale of the problem is such that £94m could be spent in Middlesbrough alone and there would still be housing need in that town . |
| 6 | ‘ As one of a growing band of organic sheep farmers , I know that sheep can be reared without cruelty . |
| 7 | Keeping such a cold temperature will require many food companies to buy better refrigeration equipment so , until April 1993 , a temperature of no warmer than 8°C must be maintained for those foods . |
| 8 | If there are 26 million people at work in Britain , an increase in demand of not less than 10% would be needed to mop-up 4 million unemployed . |
| 9 | For example , if a national standard determined that $100 should be issued for performance of an obstetric service , and a hospital performed the service for $90 , it would pocket the $10 difference for use in other programmes . |
| 10 | To increase foreign investment the government in March 1991 announced that foreign firms would be permitted to repatriate all profits , but that only firms investing more than $2,800,000 would be permitted to retain the three-year tax exemption previously enjoyed by all foreign firms . |
| 11 | One of the criticisms of this approach is that data may be collected which is never used subsequently . |
| 12 | The drawback associated with this approach is that data may be held indefinitely with no use being made of it . |
| 13 | The fact that microcomputers can communicate with larger computers means that data can be prepared on the micro and then sent to the mainframe at a convenient moment . |
| 14 | But the basic point is that data can be stuffed into files whenever you need it in that format . |
| 15 | One of the advantages of list processing is that data can be processed sequentially without the records themselves being stored sequentially . |
| 16 | A great deal of other software is become transparently compatible , so that data can be shared between database programs , word processors , and graphics software , using multi-tasking operating systems . |
| 17 | This principle seems to imply that data should be destroyed when the specified purpose for which they were collected has been achieved . |
| 18 | ( 5 ) that the spending plans submitted should fall within the guidelines described earlier in that the money should not be spent on sets of textbooks , nor for the furnishing or decoration of premises , and that no more than 20% should be allocated to non-book resources |
| 19 | A debtor who did that and swore that his all amounted to less than £5 would be brought before a court . |
| 20 | Despite this downward movement , the Central Statistical Office calculates that £2.47 would be needed today to match the buying power of £1 when Mrs Thatcher quoted Saint Francis of Assisi after her first Conservative victory . |
| 21 | Ministers are told any gifts worth more than £125 must be refused or handed over to the department . |
| 22 | When fly and lure fishing only are allowed on a water there is no other way that fish can be caught . |
| 23 | Ever since the RSPCA established a Working Party to look at the implications of fishing , we have been concerned about one of its conclusions , which is that fish should be given the benefit of the doubt with regard to their ability to experience pain . |
| 24 | However , JR , being an experienced figures man , new that statistics could be made to prove almost anything . |
| 25 | ( 3 ) An action of which the value ( defined below ) is less than £25,000 shall be tried in a county court unless : ( a ) a county court considers that it ought to transfer the action to the High Court for trial and the High Court considers that it ought to try the action ; or ( b ) it is commenced in the High Court and the High Court considers that it ought to try the action ( art 7(3) ) . |
| 26 | Government figures maintain that 250m would be collected from books at 17 ½%; VAT , but this figure does not take into account rebates to the public sector and reduced sales . ’ |
| 27 | It is hoped that £1m will be raised worldwide from the event through sponsorship and donations . |
| 28 | It is hoped that £1m will be raised through events staged in this country and across the rest of the world |
| 29 | It admits that people may be driven to vice by desperation or cruel social circumstances . |
| 30 | What kind of things , I mean amongst people of your age , what are the kind of things that people might be involved ? |